I use an ActivIdentity ActivKey to connect to my corporate VPN. I installed in a Guest VM Windows Vista SP1 Enterprise 32-bit with my company's imaging solution. At the time, for testing purposes, my host OS was exactly the same thing. The ActivKey wasn't properly recognized and did not work correctly until I added the following line to my vmx file:
uhci.syncWriteback = "TRUE"
This seemed to consistently work, so I moved on to my next step which was changing my host OS to a 64-bit system. I wiped my host OS and installed Fedora Core 9 x64 to take full advantage of the 4GB of RAM in my machine. I installed ccid 1.3.8 as well as much of the pcsc-related stuff. Now, when I try to run the same VM, my Activkey only sporadically works about 30-40% of the time. I attached below an excerpt from my vm log from when it would not work. Basically, my VPN client would fail by repeatedly trying to read the card, and then spit out the following error.
An internal error has been detected, but the source is unknown.
(Error 0x80100014) For customized troubleshooting information for this connection, click Help.
Disconnecting and reconnecting the key from the VM would render the card even less recognizable, and Vista would not even properly recognize that there's a smartcard key there.
I'm also not sure if this is related, but when my ActivKey is attached to my computer and connected to the vm, pcsc_scan returns one thing, whereas when I first connect my ActivKey without attaching it to the VM, it outputs some very different information (see logs below).
Anything special I should be doing in my vmx file to get this to work consistently?
